Another review for The Life and Death of a Sex Doll

Well, look at this review for The Life & Death of a Sex Doll. Why, I believe that’s yet another positive review for my first published sci-fi effort. I like this part best:

I tend to avoid sci-fi because heavily used computer jargon and a superfluous presence of robots and androids can be hard for me to connect to. I guess I’ve never been much of a techie geek. But with The Life and Death of a Sex Doll, I was able to breeze through the shop talk with a comprehension I usually struggle to find. There was plenty of humor throughout, which I always appreciate, and the story flowed easily.

As always, I want to thank the reviewer, in this case Jezzy Wolfe. This is a very good streak of favorable reviews for my book from Belfire Press, and I’m grateful, both to the publisher for sticking with me despite my being insane, and to the many reviewers who have thus far graced their opinions on the two novellas.

I’m told by my publisher that print sales this quarter are atrocious, but that Kindle sales are doing good. I do not yet have specific numbers, but we are not yet at the end of the publishing quarter from whence my title came. And while I am batshit insane, I know how to read a calendar and am adamantly opposed to picking up stalking as a habit. I have far too many hobbies already.

Where was I? Oh, right…thing is, sales should be better in theory now. I’m not saying “You should be buying more copies of the book” because I don’t have a clue what numbers I have. I’m just saying, with this many good reviews in public, I would imagine that sales should be higher. Then again, perhaps I haven’t yet hit the saturation point of enough good reviews to get better sales. I’ll still have to wait a bit longer to find out. Freakin’ suspense is killing me.

But it is a great review, isn’t it? Makes me feel like a proud nerd to know I made my tech lingo approachable to an outsider. =^) So, thanks again to Jezzy for the review and to Liquid Imagination for hosting the review. After y’all check out my review, be sure to look around the site, as Jezzy has another review for another Belfire title, The White Faced Bear, which you might like. Or, I could just post the link too. Yay, Team Belfire. =^)

New Book: Books of Daniel

In my only other post for today, SPAM. Yes, I’m releasing Books of Daniel.

Daniel Rafferty is an apartment handyman and ex-con who helps a pair of delinquents living in his complex. His efforts to straighten out Patrick and Matt Campbell also draw the interest of their sister Miranda. Her interest grows as she learns that Daniel is a writer. Miranda thinks falling in love is no big deal, but Daniel knows better. But even knowing the truth, he still can’t push her away.

This is labeled as a tragedy, although on Smashwords there is no tragedy and I was forced to use transgressional instead because they both start with the same letters. And besides, it is actually transgressional in the right context, and it features the least amount of plot devices possible to present a story about bad people making bad choices.

Denial of the Nerds (or, What Comes After Revenge)

I have to type this very, very slowly and lightly. I cannot make this a long post, or angry. Because I love a challenge.

Nerds, as children, you were beaten up, stuffed in lockers, and tormented just as badly as any trans kid. I have felt your pain, and not in a political metaphor kind of way, either. I’ve really been in the same bruised, bloodied position.

I am a gaming nerd myself, a lover of Star Trek (Picard 4 Life), Star Wars, horror novels, fantasy novels, sci-fi novels, comic books, card games, video games, anime, D&D, and porn (Animated or not). With the right costumes, I can even find furries sexy. I am one of you, and have slipped in and out of your many social sublayers without being made to feel like too much of an outsider. So I’m asking this as nicely as I can, from one nerd to alla y’all.

How in the hell do the most bullied kids in school grow up to become the most entitled fucking whiner adults on the Internet? A video game doesn’t include the right DLC item you’d heard rumored, and you go ape shit. A woman disses the Magic World Champion, and you attack her with sexism about how one of your socially backwards gamers is really a great catch and she just can’t see that. Some feminist disses your favorite sexist fantasy show, and you pull out token women to drub her about how she just can’t understand you.

And, when she said she couldn’t expect you to parse fine language, she’s right. You couldn’t be bothered to read ANY criticism of your show, deserved or not. But your inability to stop whining does not mean she shouldn’t express her opinion about your shitty sexist show. It just means that for a few weeks, she has to put up with your entitled opinion bashing. You hated bullying, but you LOVE to cyber bully others. Hypocritical much? Oh, you betcha.